(A lecture delivered at the 6th meeting of
the Special Section on History, Philosophy, and the Foundations of Mathematics
for the Mathematical Society of the GDR, Greifswald, October 1982, reprinted
from the Communications of the Mathematical Society of the German Democratic
Republic, 1983, no.1, pp. 49-60;
translated from the German and brought to our attention by Lee Lorch)

Quotes fromMay 19 and 28, 1988 Times of India clippings, sent in by Chandler Davis,
"Girls Outshine Boys Again" and "Girls Again on Scoring
Spree," 18 5, S/O '88, 4

Awards and
Honors, 18 5, S/O '88, 5

Doris Schattschneider delivers J. Sutherland
Frame Lecture ("You Too, Can Tile the Conway Way," the first women to
do so in the 75-year history of Pi Mu Epsilon national mathematical honor society,
18 5, S/O '88, 5

Brief bio of Doris Schattschneider, 18 5,
S/O '88, 5

Abstract of "You Too, Can Tile the
Conway Way," 18 5, S/O '88, 5

Elizabeth Wilmer is member of Harvard team
selected as first winner of new SIAM award for exceptional performance in the
Mathematical Contest Modeling

Exerpts (adapted) from a talk at the AAAS
National Conference in February 16, 1987.Most of the facts omitted from the talk can be found in Pat's paper
"Black Women in Mathematics in the United States," in the October,
1981, American Mathematical Weekly.

(Adapted from a paper presented at the
Annual Invitational Meeting of the Joseph Priestly Association, Museum of
Natural History, in November 1987.The
paper is a report on a collaborative project between the Consortium for
Educational Equity at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the
Montclair Art Museum.)

Dr. Roswitha Maerz elected July, 1988 as
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic
Republic, 18 6, N/D '88, 13

Dr. Lee Lorch receives citation on Jan. 29,
1988 from the Division of Natural Sciences, Spelman College "for
outstanding contributions to the education of blackmathematicians and to the field of
mathematics. . . ," 18 6, N/D '88, 13

The public world where results of the
private struggle make an appearance in a formal, conventional, abstract
formulation from which all evidence of false trails, inadequate reasoning or
misunderstandings have been eliminated, 18 6, N/D '88, 20

Students are generally given access only to
the public world, so that their struggle and failure to understand are personal
ones instead of being part of the process inherentin the development of the mathematics
originally, 18 6, N/D '88, 20

The pretend world of certainty, exactitude
and objectivity is associated with power and control, and is therefore male, 18
6, N/D '88, 20

Need for bringing mathematical pedagogy into
the world of conjecture, relativism and incompleteness that mathematics
occupies, 18 6, N/D '88, 20-21

Women justifiably reject much of the
mathematics they encounter in school because of its irrelevance, lack of
relation to the world of reality in which they reside, and because it is
impersonal and uncreative, 18 6, N/D '88, 21

Scientific
Exchanges, 18 6, N/D '88, 21

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) invites
applications from American scientists for visits to the USSR, and Eastern
Europe during 1990, 18 6, N/D '88, 21

Grace Murray Hopper more accurately described
as "grandmother of COBOL" rather than "mother," since COBOL
was developed by a team and Grace hopper was not directly involved, 19 1 J/F
'89, 3

Hopper's important indirect involvement, 19
1 J/F '89, 3

COBOL development team, 19 1 J/F '89, 4

Jean Sammet mini-biography, 19 1 J/F '89,
4-5

Education
Committee Survey Responses, 19 1 J/F '89, 5

Invitation to
Join the AWM Math Education Committee, 19 1 J/F '89, 5

Education
Committee Questionnaire, 19 1 J/F '89, 6

Undergraduate
Instrumentation Awards, 19 1 J/F '89, 6

Book Review
Column, 19 1 J/F '89, 7

Mathematics Games for the Young and Old,
Agnes Azzolino, 19 1 J/F '89, 7

Textbook of games for ages 2-7

Discarded Minds, Lisa Syron, 19 1 J/F '89, 7

Effects of gender, racial and socioeconomic
bias on mathematical and scientific education of young women in NYC public
schools and the powerful impact encouraging teachers and attractive role models
have on student decsions, 19 1 J/F '89, 7

A child's growning interest and skill in
pursuing objective enquiry depends on sustaining her interest in the world
around her such that she can formulate questions about it and develop her
capacity ot attend to, focus on, and investigate aspects of that world that are
distinct from herself, 19 1 J/F '89, 13

Girl pupils are telling us mathematical
pedagogy fails with the majority of students because it reflects misguided
conceptions of the subject itself and the manner of using and learning it, 19 1
J/F '89, 14

When pupil experiences of mathematics have
shifted to make space for personal, creative inquiry through which
understanding is explored and constructed, girls in school will then believe
mathematics relates meaningfully to them, 19 1 J/F '89, 14

Grants, Etc., 19
1 J/F '89, 14

"Gender and
Science," Jean Burr Smith, 19 1 J/F '89, 15-17

(report from panel on Gender and Science at
MAA Northeastern Section meeting)

Tabular comparisons of men and women
registered for science courses in 1980 and 1986 at one college, 19 1 J/F '89,
15

AWM in the News,
19 1 J/F '89, 18

AWM members quoted in New York Times"
article, "A Shortage of Women in Mathematics," by Elizabeth M.
Fowler, 19 1 J/F '89, 18

(Selected sections from Interim Report of
The Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and
Technology)

Parents, schools, colleges, professional
societies, industry, State legislatures, Federal agencies, the President, and
Congress must act in concert or our national sice and engineering workforce
will continue to erode and prospects for maintaining an advanced industrial
society will diminish, 19 2 M/A '89, 11

Educational pipeline, prekindergarten
through graduate school needs to be repaired to yield larger, more diverse
group of world-class scientists and engineers at all levels, 19 2 M/A '89, 11

Women at SUNY College at Potsdam are
attracted to mathematics and just as successful as men when the teaching
environment is open to and supportive of all students and the style of teaching
is true to the nature of mathematical inquiry, 19 4 J/A '89, 6-10

Teaching issues:how teachers are trained, how they teach, how
students learn, and how to use technology to enhance teaching and learning, 19
4 J/A '89, 22-23

AAUW Fellowships
for 1989-90, 19 4 J/A '89, 23

Teacher-Link, 19
4 J/A '89, 24

U of Va's electronic network Teacher-Link
allows faculty and students in Curry School of Education communicate with each
other, with faculty and students at other universities, and with public schools
around the world, 19 4 J/A '89, 24

USSR Fulbrights,
1990-91, 19 4 J/A '89, 24

CIES invites applications from American
scholars in any field of mathematics or computer science, 19 4 J/A '89, 24

Conference on
Women in Mathematics and the Sciences, 19 4 J/A '89, 24-25

Two-day conference at St. Cloud State
University on how to reverse the tendency among capable women undergraduates
not to pursue study in mathematics and the sciences.

Mid-wife teacher creates environment which
encourages discussion and exploration of ideas that can evolve from what
students know already and develop to maturity, 19 5 S/O '89, 18

High School visiting program in Boston area
(sponsored by Association of MIT Alumnae, with participation by the Society for
Women Engineers and the Association for Women in Science), 19 5 S/O '89, 18-19

Visiting program aimed at encouraging girls
to keep studying math even if they don't enjoy it or aren't good at it, 19 5
S/O '89, 18-19

Report of the Mathematical Sciences
Education Board, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their joint committee on
The Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000, 19 5 S/O '89, 19-20

Inadequacies of current teaching
methods/mathematical knowledge of students leaving high school and
college,decline of PhD degrees in the mathematical sciences earned by U.S.
citizens by nearly 50%, suggestions for change and improvement in teaching of
mathematics at all levels, 19 5 S/O '89, 19-20

New book series planned:Lives of Women in Science, to be edited by
Pnina Abir-Am, 19 5 S/O '89, 22

American Women in Science Biographies,
(series of five books, each on a woman successful in science or mathematics
despite a handicap present since childhood for 6 to 9-yr olds) by Mary Ellen
Verheyden-Hilliard, 19 5 S/O '89, 22

Psychology of women using archetypes,
based on an off-shoot of Jung's theories, 5-6

Education
Committee Column, 19 6 N/D '89,7

Report by Gloria F. Gilmer, chair of the Joint
AMS-MAA-AAAS Committee on Opportunities in Mathematics for Underrepresented
Minorities (COMUM), on a new initiative with minorities, 19 6 N/D '89, 7

COMUM objectives, 19 6 N/D '89, 7

Other COMUM plans, 19 6 N/D '89, 7

National convocation to be held at the
National Academy of Sciences, following six regional invitational workshops on
minorities and mathematics, 19 6 N/D '89, 7

MSEB Launches
Minorities Project, 19 6 N/D '89, 8

Mathematical Sciences Education Board begins
Making Mathematics Work for Minorities, a long-term planning and public
awareness program to help reverse lack of achievement in mathematics by
minority students, 19 6 N/D '89, 8

Funded by Exxon Education Foundation, the
project is designed to respond to the concerns set forth in Everybody Counts,
which described the state of U.S. mathematics education, 19 6 N/D '89, 8

National convocation to be held in
Washington, DC to define the factors influencing minority mathematics
achievement and produce a practical plan of action for the nation, 19 6 N/D
'89, 8

Conference
Announcements, 19 6 N/D '89, 8

University of Lowell to host NSF/CBMS
regional conference of on wavelets, 19 6 N/D '89, 8

Dr. Ingrid Daubechies of AT&T Bell
Laboratories to present series of 10 lectures on "Wavelets and their
applications in mathematics, physics, and engineering," 19 6 N/D '89, 8

4th International Conference on the Teaching
of Mathematical Modelling and Applications focused on the application of
mathematics to real-world situations where mathematical models of those
situations can be a means to solve problems or predict results, 19 6 N/D '89, 9

Workshop topics, 19 6 N/D '89, 9

1) Foundations and epistemology, 2)
assessment and testing, 3) the use and role of computers, and 4) the role of
applications and modelling in the mathematics curriculum and approaches for
teaching it," 19 6 N/D '89, 9

Workshop #4 questions addressed:

1) What role should appns and modelling have
in mathematics curricula, including mathematics both as a subject in its own
right and as a service subject?

2) Where should this be placed relative to
other components in the mathematics curricula?

3) Where should the problems come from?

4) What should the balance be between
"really real" and "adapted" problems in the different
curricula?

5) What approaches are appropriate for
different kinds of mathematics?

6) Who should teach this aspect of
mathematics, and how should these teachers be trained? 19 6 N/D '89, 9

"Reflections
on First and Third World Relations:Dialogue between an English and an Argentine sister," Caroline
Series and Maria Losada, 19 6 N/D '89, 10-13

Maths is all around us:buildings, bridges, pavement, the typical
"macho" examples, but is also present in "women's work"
occupations as sewing, weaving, knitting and basketmaking, 19 6 N/D '89, 16

The heel of a sock, which can be knitted
many ways, is "a perfect solution to lagging."The ankle and heel of the foot are kept
evenly insulated, yet an engineer trying to lag a pipe with a 90-degree bend is
thought to be doing a difficult job, 19 6 N/D '89, 16

What women do with their hands is a
very intellectual thing, 19 6 N/D '89, 16

Lee Lorch review of The P¢lya Picture
Album:Encounters of a Mathematician
appeared in The Mathematical Intelligencer, 19 6 N/D '89, 17

Grant Information,
19 6 N/D '89, 17-18

AWIS Educational Foundation Predoctoral
Awards, 19 6 N/D '89, 17

Council for International Exchange of
Scholars' Quincentenary Postdoctoral Fellowships in Spain for U.S. Researchers
announced, 19 6 N/D '89, 17

Three 1990-91 Fulbright Junior Research
Grants to Israel for younger scholars holding recent PhD's or who will have the
PhD by award time, 19 6 N/D '89, 17

New program to encourage state groups to
form coalitions for mathematics education to be supported by the Exxon Education
Foundation, administered by the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 19 6 N/D
'89, 17-18

The National Research Council's Everybody
Counts:A Report to the Nation on the
Future of Mathematics Education and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics'
Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, express consensus
regarding direction mathematics education must take in the U.S., 19 6 N/D '89,
17

Any changes in mathematics education from
kindergarten through college must be translated into policies and actions at
the state level, 19 6 N/D '89, 18

Finite design (has at least one type of
symmetry, but no translations or glide reflections, as opposed to pattern,
which has translation symmetry and might, in theory, extend infinitely in one
or two dimensions), 20 1, J/F '90, 11

Council for International Exchange of
Scholars announces competition for 1991-92 Fulbright grants in research and
university lecturing abroad, 20 2, M/A '90, 19

"Don't Give
Up On Toronto," Chandler Davis, 20 2, M/A '90, 20

Appeal for women to apply to University of
Toronto's Department of Mathematics, 20 2, M/A '90, 20

Sex Equity
Handbooks, 20 2, M/A '90, 20

Handbook for Achieving Sex Equity Through
Education, edited by Susan Klein, and Sex Equity Handbook for Schools, by David
and Myra Sadker, to be reprinted through a special grant from Carnegie Corp.,
20 2, M/A '90, 20

AWM to co-sponsor "Expanding the Vision
of Opportunity in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics" with the American
Water Works Assn, 20 3 M/J '90, 1

Proposal to be sent to NSF for funding
AWM-sponsored workshops for graduate students and recent postdocs, in
conjunction with AMS/MAA Joint Meetings and the SIAM National Meeting, 20 3 M/J
'90, 1

Program committee for AWM's 20th anniversary
celebration's special session "The Future of Women in Mathematics,"
encouraged by gathering list of women mathematicians within 10 years of their
PhD degree, 20 3 M/J '90, 1

Two research areas in psychology and
education hold promise for understanding performance and persistence in
mathematics, 20 3 M/J '90, 7

Cognitive psychology's focus is not only on
achievement/actual problem solving, but on student thoughts and awareness
(self-regulatory, metacognitive) activities during the process of problem
solving, 20 3 M/J '90, 7

Women and mathematics' focus is no only on
achievement, but on affective, motivational, and attributional beliefs
associated with achievement and persistence in taking mathematics courses, 20 3
M/J '90, 7

Ford Foundation project to develop an
assessment tool for use by teachers and students in junior high math
classrooms, through formation of national advisory board, teacher focus groups,
and testing various questionnaires, 20 3 M/J '90, 7

MAQ focuses on junior high years, when many
students make critical decisions about continuing with the standard curriculum,
20 3 M/J '90, 7-8

MAQ encourages teachers to examine several
areas for instructional planning based on the students' reflections
on/awareness of cognitive activities/thoughts when solving individual,
nonroutine word problems and when learning about word problems in three
settings:teacher-led direct classroom
instruction, working in student groups to solve a problem, and doing homework,
20 3 M/J '90, 8

Other constructs in class settings are:affective beliefs of interest, value,
confidence, and anxiety; motivational beliefs of internal learning and external
performance goals; and beliefs about attributions of causes for success/failure
in working word problems, 20 3 M/J '90, 8

Current project work is prepartion oftwo products and development of next steps in
making MAQ accessible for classroom teacher use, 20 3 M/J '90, 8

Technical report includes descriptions of
project development and analyses of 1988 questionnaire data from 1700 students,
which support the original design for the assessment questionnaire, 20 3 M/J
'90, 8

Next steps on project to prepare prototype
microcomputer-based questionnaire form and to feld test formats in which
information is perceived as meaningful and useful to teachers and students, 20
3 M/J '90, 8

MAQ is a model of an assessment instrument
intended to help teachers focus on attitudes and beliefs girls have about
mathematics that discourage persistence in solving mathematical problems and
encourage perceptions of themselves as unsuccessful in mathematics, 20 3 M/J
'90, 8

University of Minnesota Talented Youth
Mathematics Program (UMTYMP) is 13-yr-old statewide program for most capable
mathematically talented students grades 5-12, 20 3 M/J '90, 9

Major concern of UMTYMP was to improve
participation of females and underrepresented groups, 20 3 M/J '90, 9

Bush Foundation Intervention Project
designed to address informational, couseling and support issues, not program
structure, 20 3 M/J '90, 9

Program believes need to encourage
supportive home and school environments cannot be overemphasized, 20 3 M/J '90,
9

Statement endorsed by NCTM and the MAA
asserts social, economic or educational status of parents has less important
effect on children's learning than what parents do with their children, 20 3
M/J '90, 9

Recommendations include discussing classroom
activities with children, providing time and place for study, participating in
conferences, playing appropriate family games/activities that use variety of
mathematical skills, complementing school's efforts by becoming aware of
breadth of mathematics topics covered in children's programs and becoming more
involved in supporting good work habits, 20 3 M/J '90, 9

Critical issues that concern every
thoughtful citizen--scarcity and hunger, population growth, pollution and
waste, poverty, health, and the arms race--are presented as exercise sets to
encourage students to consider implications of data, engage in further
research, and become actively involved in solving problems of global survival,
20 3 M/J '90, 14-15

For six- to eight-year-olds with adult
involvement, the book is developed around a group of preschoolers, including
Pinocchio, who learn geometric terms and explore shapes and measurements, 20 3
M/J '90, 15

Second David report, Renewing U.S.
Mathematics:A Plan for the 1990s
recommends improving career path in the mathematical sciences, with recruitment
of women and minorities a high priority, 20 4 J/A '90, 2

NSF-AWM Travel
Grants for Women, 20 4 J/A '90, 2

Ruth Lyttle
Satter Prize in Mathematics, 20 4 J/A '90, 2

There They Go
Again! 20 4 J/A '90, 2

Letter of protest sent by PIMMS' director,
Robert A. Rosenbaum, to seller of T-shirts captioned with:"I became a mother when I found out
there wasn't any mat involved," 20 4 J/A '90, 2

"Departmental Outreach" program
designed to provide information chairs may use to foster departmental
interaction with various constituent groups and external agencies, 20 4 J/A
'90, 5

Also scheduled:report by Committee on the Mathematical
Sciences in the Year 2000, panels on women and minorities in mathematics, and
statistics in mathematics departments, 20 4 J/A '90, 5

One workshop to be based on report Renewing
U.S. Mathematics:A Plan for 1990s,
published by Board on Matl Sciences, National Research Council, 20 4 J/A '90, 5

New NSF Program
for Women Faculty, 20 4 J/A '90, 5

Faculty Awards for Women designed to
facilitate further career development, grants of up to five years for
research-related activities for outstanding and promising women scientists and
engineers, 20 4 J/A '90, 5

Professional literature and textbooks at all
levels needed in Czechoslovakia, 20 4 J/A '90, 6-7

Putnam Exam comments from an anonymous
undergraduate, 20 4 J/A '90, 7

Making
Mathematics Work for Minorities, 20 4 J/A '90, 7-8

"Making Mathematics Work for
Minorities" National Convocation structured to produce national action
plan and to launch Alliance to Improve Mathematics for Minorities, a consortium
committed to achieveing meaningful changes in mathematics education, 20 4 J/A
'90, 7

Book Review
Column, 20 4 J/A '90, 8-11

Reprintof "The mismeasure of women," Issues in Science and Technology
of the National Academy of Sciences, based on Sexual Science:The Victorian Construction of Womanhood by
Cynthia Eagle Russett and The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern
Science by Londa Schiebinger, 20 4 J/A '90, 8-11

Stephen Jay Gould in The Mismeasure of Man
states that if society did not assume people of different racial/ethnic origins
had different mental capacities, it would not try to measure those differences,
20 4 J/A '90, 8

Similarly framed investigations and the
policymaking based on those results have not ceased to exist, 20 4 J/A '90, 8

Victorian-era scientists discovered an array
of data that confirmed their social prejudices about women, although much of at
, demonstrated by Russett, could not have withstood rigorous scrutiny even at
the time it was presented, 20 4 J/A '90, 8-9

Schiebinger suggests that these scientific
assertions resulted from the failure to recognize that the practice of scientists
is externally constrained by the assumptions they share with other members
oftheir society, 20 4 J/A '90, 9

Scientists drawn to investigate differences
between genders have almost always framed their research in terms of explaining
the superiority of one and the inferiority of the other and usually found what
they sought, 20 4 J/A '90, 9

The university has been much less
sympathetic to scientific aspirations of women than were the guild and the
salon, 20 4 J/A '90, 9-10

Russett believes contemporary scientists
have identified and discarded the biases that led their Victorian predecessors
into the errors she documents, and are therefore likely to be more objective,
more scientific in their research, 20 4 J/A '90, 10

Schiebinger suggests that the work of
scientists will continue to embody the patterns of the past as long as the
assumptions that underlie those patterns persist in society, 20 4 J/A '90, 10

West Virginia was one of 25 states receiving
$10,000 from the Mathematical Sciences Education Board for planning of state
mathematics coalition that will consist of educators and CEOs from business and
industry, 20 4 J/A '90, 13

The goal is to involve the business/industry
sector, public policy sector, and education sector in supporting and improving
mathematics education, 20 4 J/A '90, 13-14

To make "Standards" a reality in
classrooms 21 mathematics educators developed plan of action to (1) create
awareness of reform movement in mathematics education; (2) establish a dialogue
among parents, administrators, and teachers; and (3) promote realistic ways of
changing instructional practices and curriculum to meet the goals outlined in
the "Standards," 20 4 J/A '90, 14

NSF releases report, NSF's Research
Opportunities for Women Program:An
Assessment of the First Three Years, 20 4 J/A '90, 14

Research Opportunities for Women encourages
female scientists and engineers to launch research careers, providing
opportunity for their first federal grant, 20 4 J/A '90, 14

Erratum, 20 4 J/A
'90, 14

Other
Newsletters, 20 4 J/A '90, 15-17

From the AWIS Newletter:

AWIS, FairTest and other organizations urge
the National Governors' Association and the Bush Administration should not use
standardized multiple-choice tests as the primary measure of the achievement of
national educational goals, 20 4 J/A '90, 15

AWIS joins National Coalition for Women and
Girls in Education in calling for discontinuation of PSAT/NMSQT multiple-choice
tests as sole factor for selecting semifinalists for National Merit
Scholarships, 20 4 J/A '90, 15

The U.S. cannot sustain large uneducated
minorities, many of whom are 'cumulatively disadvantaged,' 20 4 J/A '90, 15

Nothing is wrong with the children; what is
wrong is the teaching.Who is teaching the
teachers?Hard work, not innate ability,
determines how much one learns.Everyone
needs to be encouraged to study mathematics, science, and engineering, 20 4 J/A
'90, 15

From the Conference to Examine Mathematics
as a Huamnistic Discipline Newletter:

Plans underway for first international
conference on girls and mathematics, 20 4 J/A '90, 15

Background discussion paper by Gila Hanna
and Gilah Leder defines conference objectives:1. To review and examine critically recent research on gender and
mathematics education; 2. To exchange information concerning intervention
programs which have been aimed at reducing gender differences in enrollment and
achievement; 3. To investigate promising future directions for research into
gender and mathematics education, 20 4 J/A '90, 15

Workshop topics proposed:1. Explanatory models of gender
differences:factors associated with the
learner (cognitive and psychosocial); factors associated with environment
(societal, curricular, situational); 2. Improvement of the situation:existing intervention programs and perceived
effectiveness; 3. Content and form of the mathematics curriculum:possible factors contributing to gender
differences, especially as they relate to minority and low socioeconomic
groups; 4. Current research projects:lessons
learned from research and future research directions with an emphasis on
instruction and changing attitudes, 20 4 J/A '90, 15

From
Kovaslevskaia Fund Newsletter:

GASAT 6 (Sixth International Gender and
Science and Technology Conference) to be held in Australia, 20 4 J/A '90, 16

Ninth International Conference of Women Engineers
and Scientists to be held in London, 20 4 J/A '90, 16

Nigerian Association of Women in Science,
Technology, and Mathematics (NAWSTEM) chapter at University of Benin launched
media campaign to increase public awareness of the importance of studying scie
and technology for young girls and women, 20 4 J/A '90, 16

From the MER
Newsletter:

Mathematicians and Education Reform Network
is an NSF project in precollege mathematics education, seeks to inform and
interest mathematicians in precollege mathematics education, attract a pool of
mathematicians to work in this area, develop organizational supportforplanning and implementingprecollege
mathematics education projects, increase communication between the mathematics
and mathematics education communities, and sensitize the mathematics community
to the importance of having mathematicians work in school mathematics and to
consider models for institutional recognition for work in school mathematics,
20 4 J/A '90, 16

From UME
Trends:News and Reports on
Undergraduate Mathematics Education:

Conference on Women in Mathematics and the
Sciences underscored the view that central to any improvement in training
mathematicians and scientists are programs to enhance the participation of
women and minorities, 20 4 J/A '90, 16

EQUALS center carries out several programs
and provides publications related to equal opportunity and access to
mathematics and science learning for students and teachers, 20 4 J/A '90, 17

Just Say Yes is aimed at improving
mathematics and science proficiency of minority students in elementary grades
through hands-on lessons, mentors, career information, tutoring and other
activities, 20 4 J/A '90, 17

Math/Science Network works to increase
participation of girls and women in mat, science and technology, 20 4 J/A '90,
18

Minority Women in Science (MWIS) is a
national network of chapters involved in projects to facilitate the entrance of
minority women to science careers, 20 4 J/A '90, 18

National Council of La Raza Education Office
seek to improve the educational status of Hispanic Americans through Project
EXCEL (Excellence in Community Educational Leadership), which provides
affiliates with training in teaching problem solving skills in mathematics and
science, 20 4 J/A '90, 18

Operation S.M.A.R.T. is Girls Clubs of
America program aimed at introducing to and increasing skills of 13- to
15-year-old girls in mathematics, science and technology, 20 4 J/A '90, 18

Precollege Engineering Programs are national
programs based around the country to supplement mathematics and science
prepartion of minority students wishing to pursue engineering careers, 20 4 J/A
'90, 18

Women and Mathematics (WAM) sponsors women
from business, industry, and other fields to speak to students about the
importantce of mathematics in their careers, 20 4 J/A '90, 18

Office Of
Opportunities in Science, 20 4 J/A '90, 18-19

(Reprinted from AAAS Science Directory)

The AAAS'sOffice of Opportunities in Science
(OOS) works to enhance the status and and accelerate advancement of women,
minorites, and physically disabled persons in all the scientific, engineering,
and related professions; and to ensure that educational and professional
opportunities are open to these groups at all levels, 20 4 J/A '90, 18

The Linkages Project links community-based
advocacy and service organizations with resources of the scientific community,
to improve mathematics and science education of young people who are females,
have physical disabilities, or are members of underrepresented racial or ethnic
groups, 20 4 J/A '90, 19

The Project on Women in Science seeks to
increase participation of women through first national conference on women in
science and engineering, surveying educl career-related programs in science,
mathematics, and engineering for women and girls, disseminating a bibliography
on women in science and mathematics, and compilings lists of scientific
associations and committees, 20 4 J/A '90, 19

The Middle School:Years of Choice and the Black
Churches--Connection to Linkages programs are extensions of the Linkages
Project to increase the quality of middle school mathematics preparation for minorities,
women, and disabled persons and to involve organizational units that
collectively form the Black Church outreach networks in mathematics and science
education activities, 20 4 J/A '90, 19

The AAAS Office of Opportunities in Science
and Apple Computer, Inc. have established 38 community-based computer learning
centers in 22 states and the District of columbia, connected electronically to
each other and AAAS through AppleLink, providing science and mathematics
activities for preschool to senior citizens, 20 4 J/A '90, 19

The Science Resources for Schools and
Community-Based Organizations (SRS/CBO) project is helping to improve teaching
and learning for black and Hispanic 5th- through 9th-grade students, their
parents and teacher, 20 4 J/A '90, 19

SATs do not predict college achievement in
mathematics and science, or equalize quality differences in high schools, 20 5
S/O '90, 10

SATs have doubtful predictive value and
questionable form and content, put false premium on one kind of intelligence
over others, reward facile/glib reactions and conventional values while
penalizing thoughtfulness and originality, 20 5 S/O '90, 10

"Letter,"
Claudia Zaslavsky, 20 5 S/O '90, 11

Letter to IBM Gallery of Science and Art
points out "revised" IBM History Wall Chart still contains only one
woman, Emmy Noether, who is still referred to ess respectfully in print than
male mathematicians, 20 5 S/O '90, 11

Family Math after school program for parents
and their children provides classes by grade level, 20 5 S/O '90, 11

WAM (Women and Mathematics) program provides
informal talks to secondary school level students, parents, teachers, guidance
counselors, curriculum directors by women in mathematically related fields, to
stimulate interest in mathematics among all students and motivate especially
able students toward careers in mathematics, science, and technology, 20 5 S/O
'90, 11

Futures Unlimited, one-day program for
7th-10th grade girls conducted by Consortium for Educational Equity designed to
encourage students to take as much mathematics as possible throughout high
school to keep open multiple career options and expose them to variety of
math/science/business/computer careers, 20 5 S/O '90, 11

Network of Stevens Institute of Technology
provides presentation to high schools featuring successful women in
math/science, with presentation for 8th grade girls emphasizing importance of
high school mathematics, 20 5 S/O '90, 12

At Exploring Career Options in Engineering
and Science (ECOES), month-long residential program conducted by Stevens
Institute, 11th-grade girls do two research projects in engineering or science
and can explore career, 20 5 S/O '90, 12

Rutgers Summer Program in Discrete
Mathematics is a 1-month program for talented 11th and 12th graders, 20 5 S/O
'90, 12

Project for Resourceful Instruction of
Mathematics in Elementary Schools (PRIMES) designed to enable teachers to be
more successful and interesting, 20 5 S/O '90, 12

Partnership for Radical Improvement of
School Mathematics (PRISM) works through school districts commited to working
with New Jersey State Department of Education for five years in consortium of
20-30 districts to serve as model of reform in mathematics education K-8, 20 5
S/O '90, 12

Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer
Education of Rutgers University has created new K-8 mathematics curriculum,
conducts summer in-service training in mathematics and pedagogy for math
teachers at all levels of experience, 20 5 S/O '90, 12

Life-generation and nuturing (chalice)
versus the power to take rather than give life, the power to establish and
enforce domination (blade), and partnership society versus dominator society,
20 5 S/O '90, 14

Textbook dealing with, among other
things:misconceptions about learning
mathematics, math anxiety and how to deal with it, the meaning of numbers and
their underlying concepts, application to real world situations, possible
sources of misundering, plus similar problems and a quiz for the reader, 20 5
S/O '90, 16

If female instructors want to obtain high
student ratings, they must be highly competent and careful to act in accordance
with traditional sex role expectations (stereotypically feminine
behavior/nurturing mother figure), 20 5 S/O '90, 17

Difficulty for women occurs when needing to
adopt "get-tough" attitude, since only the most serious and mature
students are likely to respond with high ratings, with most students inclined
to "punish" the instructor, more severely if an instructor is female,
20 5 S/O '90, 17

Another study found women rated highly only
if especially accessible and spend a lot of time with them (gender appropriate
expectation), yet men receive equally high ratings while remaining aloof (to
spend most of their time on research/non-teaching activities), 20 5 S/O '90, 17

Mathematics departments are at a special
disadvantage if administrators/faculty in other departments have excessive
confidence in student rating numbers and value of cross-department comparisons,
20 5 S/O '90, 18

Conclusions:1.Student ratings can provide
valuable feedback to instructor themselves but not propoerly understood by
those unfamiliar with nature of course, student characteristics and pedagogical
objectives of the instructor; 2.Very
specific questions less likely to invite biased responses than general
questions; 3.Often in math departments,
students tend to discriminate against women instructors on rating forms;
4.Math departments and administrators
have an ethical and legal obligation not to base promotion/salary decisions on
data biased against women, 20 5 S/O '90, 18

Separate student and teacher workshops,
panel discussion on careers and role mathematics played in preparation for and
advancing in those careers encourages young women to study mathematics
throughout high school at Simmons College, 20 5 S/O '90, 19-20

"Women do
Math," 20 5 S/O '90, 20-22

Simon Fraser University (Canada) annual
"Women Do Math" conference uses career talks, science talk,
workshops, and career panel discussion to reach goals offostering interest in mathematics and the
sciences and stressing importance of mathematics in broadening career options
for women, expanded to five other communities, 20 5 S/O '90, 20

Recently opened institute to provide updated
training for all Chicago public school educators teaching science and
mathematics, and to meet needs perceived by teachers and principals of
participating schools, 20 5 S/O '90, 22

For individuals, rather large differences in
SAT scores are not statistically significant, a fact not well enough
appreciated by users of SAT scores, but for the population of all test takers,
the differences between males and females is highly significant.It is reasonable to look into and question
simplistic conclusions such as innate ability, but unreasonable to dismiss
differences as statistically insignificant, 20 6 N/D '90, 6

Success on the Competition requires
mathematical ability and problem-solving experience, but also a 'Putnam
temperament,' ability to work quickly, independently without references and
willingness to consider problems out of context, 20 6 N/D '90, 9

Men brought up to believe his career is
first priority in his life may feel entitled to have his domestic needs taken
care of by his wife, even if intellectually he believes they should share the
responsibility, 20 6 N/D '90, 10

Women are likely to have lower-paying/less
prestigious jobs than their husbands and may lack professional self-confidence
to take her own career as seriously as that of her husband, 20 6 N/D '90, 10

Social/professional assumptions about gender
roles reinforce inequities in family responsibilities:Schools more likely to call mother when child
is ill, father's employers more likely to be critical than the mother's if he
leaves work when child is ill, 20 6 N/D '90, 10

"Sexism in
the Classroom:From Grade School to
Graduate School," Myra Sadker and David Sadker, 20 6 N/D '90, 11-14

(Reprinted from Phil Delta Kappan)

Classrooms at all levels are characterized
by a general environment of inequity and bias in classroom interaction inhibits
student achievement, but the tools to solve these problems have been forged, 20
6 N/D '90, 11-12

(No time to do more, sorry)

ICIAM UPDATE, 20
6 N/D '90, 14

More than 2400 requests already sent in for
abstract/minisymposium proposal forms, 20 6 N/D '90, 14

Report on delegations activities in China
and speeches delivered by a Chinese instructor and a Chinese student, 21 1 J/F
'91, 21

NRC Senior and
Postdoctoral Research Associateships, 21 1 J/F '91, 21

Research Program announced, 21 1 J/F '91, 21

NSF News, 21 1
J/F '91, 22-24

Meetings, Faculty Workshop, Research
Fellowship PROgram, Program Summary:Equipment, Opportunities for Women, Minority Research Initiation,
Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellowships and Special Awards, and Research and
Education at Undergraduate Institutions, 21 1 J/F '91, 22-24

From the San Francisco Examiner, "Year
of change for Canadian engineers:Profession re-examines attitudes after November '89 massacre of
women," Don McGillivray, on the soul-searching engineers are doing in
light of Montreal women engineering students targeted by killer, 21 2 M/A '91,
23

Universities should be leading society in
making changes for women:fellowships,
maternity leave, on-site day care, instead of staying stuck in an era when men
had professions and women had babies, 21 3 M/J '91, 12-14

Ethnographic study from 1979 to 1987 of 23
women with strong academic records and career aspirations, finds over
two-thirds of them poorly prepared for careers because they were unable to
remove themselves from the "sexual auction block," 21 3 M/J '91,
17-18

"The Power of Menstruation," Dena
Taylor, from Mothering's Health column, on lunar markings on prehistoric bone
fragments show how early women marked their cycles and thus began to mark time,
21 4 J/A '91, 28

"Heroines and Role Models,"
editorial from Science taken from Maxine Singer commencement address at
Barnard, 21 6 N/D '91, 28

"Women's Panel Formed," Margaret
Ryan from Electronic Engineering Times on committee established by National
Academy of Sciences / National Research Council to attract women to science /
engineering careers, 21 6 N/D '91, 28

Two articles with disquieting salary
information, 21 6 N/D '91, 28-29

Brief Notes, 21 6
N/D '91, 29

Publications of interest and Della Dumbaugh
Fenster to speak at Special Session in the History of Mathematics at the Joint
Meetings, 21 6 N/D '91, 29

Three interviews, nine papers from symposia
on women in science, theories on why women publish less than men, sociological
analysis of lack of leadership offerings to women, theories/research findings
about women's position in science, 22 1 J/F '92, 6-7

ATLAST Project (Augment the Teaching of
Linear Algebra through the use of Software Tools) to offer ten faculty
workshops on software use for teaching linear algebra, 22 2 M/A '92, 20

International Workshop on History of Women
in Science, Technology and Medicine, 22 2 M/A '92, 20

Conference on Computers in Geometry
Classrooms, 22 2 M/A '92, 20 -21

Women in Math and
Physics:Inhibitors and Enhancers, 22 2
M/A '92, 21

Review of the literature, results of 3
studies, and recommendations for institutional change having greatest impact on
improving academic experience of women in mathematics and physics, 22 2 M/A
'92, 21

Articles of
Interest,, 22 2 M/A '92, 21-24

From AMS Notices:

"Mathematics under Hardship Conditions
in the Third World," by Neal Koblitz, 22 2 M/A '92, 21-22

"Report on the Third Pan-American
Congress of Mathematicians and Some Thoughts on Cooperation Between the
American and African Mathematical Communities," Lenore Blum, 22 2 M/A '92,
22-23

Feminist perspective on sociological study
of women surveyors in Great Britain, who deal not only with land surveying but
with land valuation, investment, transfer, development, and management, 22 3
M/J '92, 6-7

Women in Science and Engineering NETwork
(WISENET/Midwest promotes interests of women and girls in science, mathematics,
and engineering, to improve access to careers and advancement in science and
engineering from women's diverse backgrounds; to support research and analysis
of recruitment and retention strategies; to maintain a database of resouces and
information about women scientists and engineers in the midwest; to serve as a
communication link among midwest groups and individuals interested in women in
science and engineering, 22 3 M/J '92, 8

Masterminding Math and Science spearheaded
by Boston Partners in Education, designed to increase quality and quantity of
math and science teaching in schools and to stimulate student interest in
pursuing careers in those fields, needs mentors for role models, 22 3 M/J '92,
11

MAA Committee on Participation of women at
ICME Congress solicits true anecdotes from lives of female research
mathematicians to show micro-inequities occure internationally and at every
level of mathematical activity, 22 4 J/A '92, 7

Nominations invited for Alan T. Waterman
Award for outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering,
22 5 S/O '92, 14

Education
Committee, 22 5 S/O '92, 15-16

Summary of "Why Have All the Women
Gone?A Study of Exit of Women from the
Science and Engineering Professions, " Anne Preston, 22 5 S/O '92, 15-16

RSC Censure of
CJP, 22 5 S/O '92, 16

Royal Society of Canada expresses censure of
Canadian Journal of Physics in publishing Gordon R. Freeman's "Kinetics of
nonhomogeneous processes in human society:Unethical behavior and societal chaos" for its lapse of editorial
and scientific responsibility in publishing this article devoid of scientific
content and with a misleading and inappropriate title, 22 5 S/O '92, 16

10th edition of Professional Women and
Minorities:A Total Human Resources Data
Compendium, shows continued decline in science and engineering for career
choice, but women continue to increase their presence in U.S. labor force, 22 5
S/O '92, 24

Articles of
Interest, 22 5 S/O '92, 25

From American Scientist, "Women in
Science and Engineering," Stephen G. Brush, which outlines some factors
which discourage women and girls from participating in science, 22 5 S/O '92,
25

From AWIS Magazine, "Not Getting the
Award, Grant, or Job? Check Those References!" is provocative case study
of four recommendation letters written by one professor during a one-year
period, with student credentials and analyses of the letters, 22 5 S/O '92, 25

Joint Committee on Women in Mathematics
(JCW) charge is to identify and recommend actions which in their opion the AMS,
MAA, SIAM and other mathematics societies should take to alleviate some of the
disadvantages that women mathematicians now experience and to document their
recommendations and actions by presenting data, 22 6 N/D '92, 11-12

JPBM decision to endore House Bill on Women
and Science legislation made upon recommendation of JCW, 22 6 N/D '92, 12

1.All fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social
sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external
models for the social sciences;

2.Exploration of relation between the development of powerful models and
bodies of knowledge in Western science and the continuous creation and
displacement of parties often excluded from science, who are often objects of
study, like Third World peoples, women, sexual minorities, the poor, and nature
itself;

Research on contribution of math-related and
applied vocational courses to math proficiency of jr. and sr. high students,
based on formal statistical model of determinants of growth in mathematical
achievement, 23 1 J/F '93, 8-9

Recommendation:systemic reform of high school curricula in
which math skills are taught in applied contexts and not only as abstract
principles, 23 1 J/F '93, 9

Observations and recommendations for making
graduate years more supportive and positive for women , 23 1 J/F '93, 11-13

Book Review, 23 1
J/F '93, 14-15

Whose Science?Whose Knowledge?Sandra Harding, 23 1 J/F '93, 14-15

Harding, a standpoint theorist, believes a
person's world-view is colored so deeply by "standpoint" --gender,
sexual orientation, ethnic identity, economic situation, social class,
etc.--that, in effect, people from different standpoints live in different
worlds; that they not only see things differently but see different things, 23
1 J/F '93, 14-15

"Preparing for the Twenty-First
Century:Human Resources in Science and
Technology," proceedings from symposium sponsored by Commission on
Professionals in Science and Technology, available, 23 1 J/F '93, 25

Study Groups should include representation
from women active in the work forces of mathematics and related science and
engineering groups, 23 2 M/A '93, 19

All organizations giving
fellowships/awards/grants to mathematicians and scientists should maintain and
make available statistics on application and success rate of women, and when
imbalances occur, investigate causes and consider how to increase number of
successful female applicants, 23 2 M/A '93, 19

Federal funding should ensure funding
opportunities exist in every category institution, through direct grants or by
allowing researchers to join large consortia as full partners, 23 2 M/A '93, 19

Increased federal funding to improve quality
of education at every level and assessment of new programs for effectiveness
for young girls as well as boys, 23 2 M/A '93, 19

Family leave for all mathematicians, male
and female, to fulfill family responsibilities, 23 2 M/A '93, 19

Worcester Polytechnic Institute sponsoring
educational enrichment summer opportunity "Strive for College and Careers
in Mathematics, Engineering and Science,"for Black, Hispanic and Native American students in their junior year of
high school, 23 2 M/A '93, 23

AWM Workshop, 23
2 M/A '93, 24

Workshop to be held in conjunction with
annual SIAM meeting for women graduate students and postdocs in applied
mathematics, 23 2 M/A '93, 24

"What is
Holding up the Glass Ceiling?Barriers
to Women in the Science and Engineering Workforce," Betty M. Vetter, 23 2
M/A '93, 24-25

Cultural, attitudinal and structural biases
prohibiting women from achieving equity in science and engineering examined in
report by Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, 23 2 M/A '93,
24

Mathematicians, women in particular, are
constrained by their geographic circumstances only to the degree that they are
limited by their imagination and their attitude toward the meaning of the word
"career," 23 3 M/J '93, 10-11

Fourth annual Women in Engineering
conference unites industry, education and government representatives in
national effort to recruit women to engineering and prepare for a global
economy and multi-cultural workforce, 23 3 M/J '93, 16

Summary of trends in cognitive,
psychosocial, and physical gender differences, and argument that explanations
for gender differences in earning power and career access lie in interactions
among factors within societal control, 23 3 M/J '93, 17-23

23rd Manitoba Conference on Numerical
Mathematics and Computing to recognize outstanding contributions of women
scientists in the field of numerical mathematics and computing, with all
invited speakers to be women, 23 5 S/O '93, 15

Call for more tenured full women professors
at elite research institutions, 23 6 N/D '93, 9-10

Exception taken to usage of the term
"curiosity-driven" research instead of "basic research," 23
6 N/D '93, 10

Washington Post letter on denial of Treasure
Department's permission to American mathematicians to spend US currency in
Cuba, effectively barring them from attending a conference in Havana, 23 6 N/D
'93, 11

American Mathematical Association of
Two-Year Colleges awarded funding to develop national standards for curriculum
and instruction for 2-yr college and lower division mathematics courses at the
level of algebra and pre-calculus, 24 1 J/F '94, 18

Bryn-Mawr-Spelman
Summer Mathematics Program, 24 1 J/F '94, 19

Mathematics
Awareness Week visuals available, 24 1 J/F '94, 19

Conferences, 24 1
J/F '94, 20-23

MIT Celebration of Women in Mathematics, 24
1 J/F '94, 20

Hudson River Undergrad Mathematics
Conference, 24 1 J/F '94, 20

First World Congress in Computational
Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology , 24 1 J/F '94, 20

The History of Women and Science, Health,
and Technology:A Bibliographic Guide to
the Professions and the Disciplines, ed. Phyllis Holman Weisbard and Rima D.
Apple, 24 1 J/F '94, 23

Calls for Papers,
24 1 J/F '94, 23-24

Journal of Women and Minorities in Science
and Engineering seeks submissions for its first year of publication, 24 1 J/F
'94, 23-24

Quantum, published by the National Science
Teachers Association and Quantum Bureau (Moscow) in conjunction with the
American Association of Physics Teachers and the National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, 24 1 J/F '94, 24

Collection of 8 papers at AAAS-organized
forum by eight female African scientists in varying fields, giving research
history and views on importance of math and science education in Africa and the
need to increase number of African women entering these fields, 24 2 M/A '94,
11-12

Study on how gender differences in students'
perceptions of themselves as learners of mathematics and classroom interaction
patterns correlate with achievement in high school calculus classrooms, 24 3
M/J '94, 12-24

National Network for Minority Women in
Science, a communication and support system for minority women in science and
engineering and others who share an interest in promoting participation of this
underrepresented group in these professions, 24 5 S/O '94, 23

Organization of educators, scientists,
mathematicians, parents, community leaders, and government/ corporate
representatives to promote continuing advancement in mathematics and science
education of all people, with emphasis on needs of women and girls, 24 6 N/D
'94, 12